Publications

Articles in Journals

  • Roberts, C., Herzing, J.E., Asensio Manjon, M., Abbet, P. and Gatica-Perez, D.  (2022). Response burden and dropout in a probability-based online panel study – a comparison between an app and browser-based design. Journal of Official Statistics, special issue on ‘Respondent Burden’, 38(4): 987–1017. https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2022-0043
  • Pekari, N., Lipps, O., Roberts, C., & Lutz, G. (2022). Conditional distributions of frame variables and voting behaviour in probability-based surveys and opt-in panels. Swiss Political Science Review, 00, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12539
  • Roberts, C., Herzing, J.E., Sobrino Piazza, J., Abbet, P. and Gatica-Perez, D. (2022). Data privacy concerns as a source of resistance to participate in surveys using a smartphone app. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Special Issue on ‘Privacy, Confidentiality, and Disclosure Protection’, 10(3): 518–548. https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smac018
  • Voorpostel, M., Roberts, C., and Ghoorbin, M. (2021). Switching to online data collection in a household panel study: effects on post-recruitment drop-out. Survey Methods Insights from the Field. Retrieved from https://surveyinsights.org/?p=15709. DOI:10.13094/SMIF-2021-00004
  • Roberts, C., Vandenplas, C., and Herzing, J. (2020). A validation of R-indicators as a measure of the risk of bias using data from a non-response follow-up survey. Journal of Official Statistics, 36(3): 675-701. https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2020-0034
  • Roberts, C., Sarrasin, O. and Ernst Stähli, M (2020). The relative impact of different sources of measurement non-equivalence in comparative surveys: Examples of item, method and construct bias. Survey Research Methods, special issue on ‘Measurement Invariance: Testing for it and explaining why it is absent’, 14(4): 399-415. https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2020.v14i4.7416
  • Roberts, C., Gilbert, E., Allum, N., and Eisner, L. (2019). Satisficing in surveys: Results of a systematic review of the literature. Public Opinion Quarterly, 83(3): 598–626. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfz035
  • Eisner, L., Clémence, A., Roberts, C., Joost, S., and Theler, J.M. (2019). Developing attitude measures based on respondents’ representations of unfamiliar objects: An application to attitudes towards biodiversity. Field Methods, 31(1): 56-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X18797280
  • Roberts, C., and Vandenplas, C. (2017). Estimating components of mean-squared error to evaluate the benefits of mixing data collection modes. Journal of Official Statistics, 33(2): 303-334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/JOS-2017-0016
  • Lipps, O., Pekari, N., and Roberts, C. (2015). Undercoverage and nonresponse in a list-sampled telephone election study. Survey Research Methods, 9(2): 71-82. https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2015.v9i2.6139
  • Roberts, C., Vandenplas, C., and Ernst Staehli, M. (2014). Evaluating the impact of response enhancement methods on the risk of nonresponse bias and survey costs. Survey Research Methods, 8(2): 67-80. https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2014.v8i2.5459
  • Sturgis, P., Roberts, C. and Smith, P. (2014). Middle alternatives revisited: How the neither/nor response acts as a ‘face-saving’ way of saying ‘I don’t know’. Sociological Methods and Research, 43(1): 15-38. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124112452527
  • Jäckle, A., Roberts, C. and Lynn, P. (2010). Assessing the Effect of Data Collection Mode on Measurement. International Statistical Review, vol. 78(1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-5823.2010.00102.x
  • Sturgis, P., Roberts, C. and Allum, N. (2005). A Different Take on the Deliberative Poll: Information, Deliberation and Attitude Constraint. Public Opinion Quarterly, 69(1), 30-65. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfi005
  • Roberts, C., Peay, J. and Eastman, N. (2002). Mental health professionals’ attitudes towards legal compulsion in England and Wales:  Report of a national survey.  International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, Vol. 1 (1), 71-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/14999013.2002.10471162
  • Peay, J., Roberts, C. and Eastman, N. (2001). Legal knowledge of mental health professionals: Report of a national survey. Journal of Mental Health Law, June 2001, 44-55. https://doi.org/10.19164/ijmhcl.v1i5.363

Books

Book Chapters

  • Roberts, C. and Voorpostel, M. (2023) Combining data collection modes in longitudinal studies. In D. Spini and E. Widmer (Eds.) Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life. Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves. Springer.
  • Voorpostel, M., Lipps, O., and Roberts, C. (2021). Mixing modes in household panel surveys: Recent developments and new findings. In P.Lynn (Ed.) Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology, Wiley.
  • Roberts, C. (2016). Response styles in surveys: understanding their causes and mitigating their impact on data quality. In C.Wolf, D. Joye, T.W. Smith, and Y-C. Fu (2016). The Sage Handbook of Survey Methodology.  London: Sage Publications.
  • Oris, M., Roberts, C., Joye, D., and Ernst Stähli, M. (2016). Surveying human vulnerabilities across the Life Course: Balancing substantive and methodological challenges. In M. Oris, C. Roberts, D. Joye, and M. Ernst Stähli. (Eds.) Surveying human vulnerabilities across the Life Course.  Springer ‘Life Course Research and Social Policies’ series.
  • Roberts, C., Allum, N., and Sturgis, P. (2014). Non-response and Measurement error in an online panel: Does additional effort to recruit reluctant respondents result in poorer quality data?  In M. Callegaro, R. Baker, J. Bethlehem, A.S. Göritz, J.A. Krosnick and P.J. Lavrakas (Eds.) Online Panel Research: A Data Quality Perspective. Wiley, Survey Methodology Series.
  • Roberts, C. (2010). Measuring social attitudes.  In M. Bulmer, J. Gibbs and L. Hyman (Eds.) Social measurement through social surveys: An applied approach.  Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.
  • Roberts, C. (2008). Introduction to attitude measurement. In Roberts, C., and Jowell, R. (Eds.) Attitude Measurement – Four volume set.  London: Sage Publications.
  • Morgan, M., Roberts, C. and Powdrill, P. (2001). More money than sense? Investigating student money management. In A.J. Scott, A. Lewis and S.E.G. Lea (eds.) Student Debt: the causes and consequences of undergraduate borrowing in the UK. Bristol: The Policy Press.

Working Papers and Reports

  • Pekari, N., Lipps, O., Roberts, C. and Lutz, G. (2018). Data quality of opt-in panels versus probability-based surveys.  Methodology News asms 2/2018, Verband Schweizer Markt- und Sozialforschung.
  • Voorpostel., M., Rothenbühler, M., Roberts, C., and Vandenplas, C. (2018). A research note on the potential impact of panel attrition on the relationship between variables. FORS Working Paper Series, 2018-1.
  • Roberts, C., Joye, D., Ernst Stähli, M., and Sanchez Tome, R.(2016). Mixing modes of data collection in Swiss social surveys: Methodological Report of the LIVES-FORS Mixed Mode Experiment. LIVES Working Paper Series, 2016/ 48. University of Lausanne: NCCR LIVES.
  • Nicolaas, G., Calderwood, L., Lynn, P., and Roberts, C. (2014). Web surveys for the general population: How, why and when? Final Report and Recommendations. ESRC National Centre for Research Methods.
  • Lipps, O., Pekari, N., and Roberts, C. (2013). Coverage and nonresponse errors in an individual register frame based Swiss telephone election study. FORS Working Paper Series, 2013-02.
  • Roberts, C., Lipps, O. and Kissau, K. (2013). Using the Swiss population register for research into survey methodology. FORS Working Paper Series, 2013-01.
  • Morselli, Davide; Spini, Dario; Le Goff, Jean-Marie; Gauthier, Jacques-Antoine; Brändle, Karen; Mugnari, Estelle; Dasoki, Nora; Roberts, Caroline; Bernardi, Laura; Bühlmann, Felix; Ryser, Valérie-Anne; Tillmann, Robin; Kühr, Judith & Bumbaru, Alexandra. Assessing the performance of the Swiss Panel LIVES Calendar: Evidence from a pilot study. LIVES Working Paper, 2013/28
  • Roberts, C. (2013). Participation and engagement in web surveys of the general population: An overview of challenges and opportunities. Synthesis paper prepared for NCRM Web Survey Network Opening Conference.
  • Roberts, C., Lipps, O., Vandenplas, C., and Ernst Stähli, M. (2012). FORS Strategy for Methodological Research 2012 – 2016.  Internal strategy report prepared for FORS.  FORS, University of Lausanne.
  • Roberts, C. and Jäckle, A. (2012). Causes of mode effects: Separating out interviewer and stimulus effects in comparisons of face-to-face and telephone surveys. ISER Working Paper 2012-27. Colchester: University of Essex.
  • Roberts, C., Eva, G., Lynn, P., and Johnson, J. (2011). Measuring the effect of interview length on response propensity and response quality in a telephone survey – Final report of the ESS CATI experiment, ESSi JRA1 Deliverable 5. Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University London.
  • Roberts, C., Eva, G., Allum, N. and Lynn, P. (2010). Data quality in telephone surveys and the effect of questionnaire length: a cross- national experiment. ISER Working Paper 2010-36. Colchester: University of Essex.
  • Sturgis, P., Roberts, C. and Smith, P. (2010) Middle alternatives revisited: How the neither/nor response acts as a ‘face-saving’ way of saying ‘I don’t know’. Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute Working Paper M10/01.  Southampton: University of Southampton
  • Roberts, C., Eva, G., Lynn, P. and Johnson, J (2010) Measuring the effect of interview length on response propensity and response quality in a telephone survey – Final report of the ESS CATI experiment. Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University London.
  • Jäckle, A., Roberts, C., and Lynn, P. (2008). Assessing the Effect of Data Collection Mode on Measurement. ISER Working Paper 2008-08. Colchester: University of Essex.
  • Roberts, C., Eva, G. and Widdop, S. (2008) Assessing the demand and capacity for mixing modes of data collection on the European Social Survey: Final report of the mapping exercise. Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University London.
  • Roberts, C. (2008) Designing equivalent questionnaires for a mixed mode European Social Survey: Report on the findings of ESS mode experiments. Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University London.
  • Roberts, C. (2007). Mixing modes of data collection in surveys: A methodological review. National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Methods Review Papers, NCRM/008, Southampton: University of Southampton.
  • Roberts, C., Jäckle, A. and Lynn, P. (2006) Causes of Mode Effects: Separating out Interviewer and Stimulus Effects in Comparisons of Face-to-Face and Telephone Surveys. Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association, Washington DC: American Statistical Association.
  • Jäckle, A., Roberts, C. and Lynn, P. (2006) Telephone versus Face-to-Face Interviewing: Mode Effects on Data Quality and Likely Causes (Report on Phase II of the ESS-Gallup Mixed Mode Methodology Project). ISER Working Paper 2006-41. Colchester: University of Essex.
  • Roberts, C. (2005). Report of the Expert workshop on mixed mode data collection in comparative social surveys. ESRC NCRM Network for Methodological Innovation on Mixed Mode Data Collection in Comparative Social Surveys, 15-16 September 2005, City University, London.
  • Rickards, L., Fox, K., Roberts, C. and Fletcher, L. (2002). Living in Britain – Report of the General Household Survey.  London: TSO.
  • Whitehead, C.M.E., Stockdale, J.E., Scanlon, K., Roberts, C., and West, K. (2002) Neighbourhood wardens: a review of international experience. Working Paper. London School of Economics and Political Science, London.

PhD Thesis

  • Roberts, C. (2007). Information, involvement and identity: a social psychological investigation into British attitudes towards the Euro. Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. London: London School of Economics and Political Science.